Featuring at 5pm, a lecture, “The Duc de Berry (1340-1416) and the Origins of Bibliomania”, by Christopher de Hamel, author of Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts, followed by a reception at 6pm
In conjunction with the exhibition Bibliomania; or Book Madness: A Bibliographical Romance https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/exhibitions/bibliomania-or-book-madnes…
A panel discussion featuring exhibition curators Kathryn James and Aaron T. Pratt, with Peter Stallybrass and David Scott Kastan
In conjunction with the exhibition Bibliomania; or Book Madness: A Bibliographical Romance https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/exhibitions/bibliomania-or-book-madnes…
A weekly series of informal talks followed by tea on the library mezzanine during the academic year.
This semester’s talks will feature discussions related to the exhibition, Bibliomania; or Book Madness: A Bibliographical Romance
More information on the exhibition: https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/exhibitions/bibliomania-or-book-madnes…
A special performance (no lecture) of students in the Yale Collegium Musicum
Whitney Anne Trettien, Assistant Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania, with Andrew Brown, Ph.D. Candidate in English, Yale, and Cathy DeRose, Digital Humanities Lab, Yale
Part of the series of panel discussions with Yale faculty and visiting speakers on the idea of the text as material object
For more on the Yale Program in the History of the Book, visit https://bookhistory.yale.edu
This exhibition takes its name from the history of “arrant book-lovers” written by Thomas Frognall Dibdin in 1842. It follows these lovers of the book through four case studies, observing the powerful and often unexpected relationships of books with their readers, owners, authors, collectors, and creators.
Select highlights of the Beinecke Library’s collections related to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and to the African American freedom movement will be on view in a temporary display for the holiday in the courtyard level reading room.
NOTE: all visitors who go to the reading room will need to check any and all bags, coats, hats, and other personal belongings on the library’s ground floor before going to the reading room. Space may be limited.
Throughout its history, legal education has both shaped legal literature and been shaped by it. Drawing on the rich holdings of the Lillian Goldman Law Library’s Rare Book Collection, this exhibition shows how the content and design of early law books were employed by both teachers and students. The examples span 15 centuries of legal education in England, Europe, and North America.
The North American West has been inhabited for millennia, but our vision of its history and cultures has been shaped, perhaps disproportionally, by the modern invention of photography. Eye on the West showcases photographs made since 1960 and encourages viewers to consider the continuing relationship between the region and the medium, to think about the ways that photographers influence our understanding of the contemporary West, its people and its places.
